โ Scribed by Arthur Machen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The House of Souls, first published in 1906,
is an omnibus edition of some of Arthur Machens best-known, controversial, and
curious fiction. It contains The Great God Pan, his notorious 1890s tale of
science and sex, and its accompanying story
The
Inmost
Light.
These appeared first in John Lanes sensational Keynotes series, as did the
portmanteau
novel
TheThreeImpostors,
containing
The
Novel
of
the White
Powderanother
story
of
science
gone
badand the classic folk-horror tale The Novel of the Black Seal. The Red
Hand is a shocking tale of curious survivals from the past lurking just
beneath the surface of everyday London.
Perhaps less well known, and in an altogether more
sensitively supernatural vein is A Fragment of Life, a quietly ambitious and
affecting tale of a seemingly ordinary suburban couple who receive intimations
of a much more numinous way of life.
But the tour-de-force of the volume is Machens
occult masterpiece The White People, a stream-of-consciousness tale far
ahead of its time, written with the utmost empathy and panache.
This new edition of The House of Souls collects
together some of Machens essential writing, augmented by Sidney H. Simes
extraordinary original frontispiece.
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